In the past half-year, I’ve used FCP-X nearly exclusively for my corporate video editing. In that time, I’ve had to to deliver a wide range of work for a very diverse group of recognizable national clients – often under very tight deadlines. I doubt I could have hit these deadlines while delivering the same quality without FCP-X. That’s based on looking back at what I’ve done, the deadlines, the programs and client requirements and how FCP-X often helped me work faster and more efficiently than I was working before.

Several changes to Sony Vegas have been seen since NAB this year. At NAB, Sony previewed Vegas Pro 10.0d and a couple months later, 10.0e is now available. So what has changed this year in Vegas? Let’s take a look…

What FCP 1.0 might tell us about FCP X (and why theOklahoma Land Rush of 1893 is still instructive today) It’s now more than a week since the great FCP X “mad dash” began, and the dust is far from…

Dynamic Link goes one way for a given instance. But if you are using unique assets to make sure no sequences, comps, or clips — even if nested — are trying to make a round trip that would result in an endless loop (in which case the Dynamic Link with the circular reference is error-trapped and simply won’t work), then Dynamic Link has functionality in both directions. Several versions back, it was only one way. An After Effects composition could be put into Premiere Pro, but not the other direction way back when. That’s changed now though.

Note: This article was originally published by Alister Chapmanand is reprinted here with his kind permission. I had heard about the QIO some time ago, so I approached Sonnet to see if I could borrow a unit to review. I…